The first hint that the end was near for Wyoming basketball coach Heath Schroyer came on the Mountain West coaches weekly teleconference. Unprompted, opposing coaches spoke of what a good job Schroyer had done with numbers limited by injuries.

Indeed, Wyoming did everything but pull out the wins against Colorado State and BYU over the past week.

As CSU coach Tim Miles pointed out, reserve Pierce Hornung willed the Rams to a win. Last week, BYU needed everyone’s All-America Jimmer Fredette to put away the Cowboys in the final minute.

Miles and I had lunch Monday, mostly to background an upcoming story on Travis Franklin. At that time he was concerned about Schroyer. When I texted the news, he replied “Ugh”

COACH JON EMBREE SAYS: “He reminds me of (ex-CU linebacker and current director of football operations) Jashon Sykes (when also is a Serra grad) because he’s a big, physical kid that’s really good in spaces. I’m not worried about him matching up with a receiver.”

WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Serra compiled a 42-2 record during Greer’s three seasons at Serra High.

MY TAKE: I like his size, and since Embree got him to flip from an oral commitment to Arizona State, my guess is he has potential.

DU enters this weekend’s series at underachieving Minnesota tied atop the WCHA standings and tied for first with 70 goals in league games. Please see our Tuesday story about the goals, a number I find super impressive given all the firepower this program lost last year.

The Pioneers’ freshmen have accounted for 33 goals — 35 percent of the team’s total of 95. Question is, if you could choose right now between 2009-10 star forwards Rhett Rakhshani, Joe Colborne and Tyler Ruegsegger, and current freshmen forwards Jason Zucker, Beau Bennett and Nick Shore, and you had one of these trios for the rest of this season and all of next, which group would you choose?

Mason Crosby accounted for seven of Green Bay’s 31 points in Sunday’s Super Bowl. Four PATs and a 23-yard field goal with 2:07 remaining for the Packers’ final points. In a six-point victory over Pittsburgh, you could spin that factoid to say Crosby won the game for Green Bay.

Maybe that’s a stretch. But Crosby did become the fourth former Colorado player to score in a Super Bowl, a tidbit courtesy of CU’s associate AD Dave Plati. Crosby joins three other former Buffs to score in the Super bowl:

COACH JON EMBREE SAYS: “He’s a guy nobody wanted but I’ll take him all day long. He does a great job of working the pocket, stepping up if he needs to, sliding to the outside. And he does that without taking his eyes off the receiver.”

WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Dorman’s uncle, former CU quarterback Koy Detmer, earned first-team all-Big 12 for the league’s inaugural season (1996). Another uncle, Ty Deter, won the 1990 Heisman Trophy while at BYU.

MY TAKE: It’s baffling that the Internet recruiting sites did not even have Dorman on their radar (in a self-fulfilling prophecy, he went from zero stars to three after committing to CU), but I’ll defer to Dorman’s grandfather Sonny Detmer on this one. If Sonny thinks the kid can play, he probably can. Could become a great diamond-in-the-rough story.

Speaking Monday on the Big 12 men’s basketball coaches teleconference, Texas A&M coach Mark Turgeon implied that it was a lot more fun having Tad Boyle sitting beside him on the same bench that it will be later this week when they will be coaching against each other.

Texas A&M (17-5, 4-4 Big 12) faces Boyle and Colorado (15-9, 4-5) on Wednesday (7 p.m., ESPNU) in the Coors Events Center. Boyle and Turgeon played together in the backcourt at Kansas in the 1980s, and Boyle was an assistant to Turgeon for two seasons at Jacksonville (Ala.) State (1998-2000) and for six at Wichita State (2000-06).

COACH JON EMBREE SAYS: “You see it all the time where one guy (at that position on a high school team) gets more publicity (Mullen’s Leilon Willingham, who signed with Central Florida) then the other guy becomes the better player. Brady is going to be a great asset to our program, a very good player.”

WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Daigh (pronounced “day”) was the first player in this class to commit to CU, when Dan Hawkins was coach.

MY TAKE: Embree isn’t the only one impressed. In its final state player rankings, Rivals.com moved Daigh from No. 10 in the state of Colorado to No. 3. That almost never happens. I look for him to be a future starter.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.